Document display method and document display device

Abstract

A document display method for causing a document including a plurality of lines and a plurality of characters to be scrolled in a line writing direction and to be displayed in a predetermined display screen that allows the plurality of lines and the plurality of characters included in the document to be displayed at the same time, the document display method comprising: consecutively connecting an end of a line in text including a plurality of lines and a beginning of a line in the text including the plurality of lines in the predetermined display screen, and performing an automatic scroll operation on the text including the plurality of lines endlessly; and causing the end of a line in the text including the plurality of lines and the beginning of a line in the text including the plurality of lines to be displayed so as to be consecutively connected by shifting upward and downward by one line at a time.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A document display method for causing a document including a plurality of lines and a plurality of characters to be scrolled in a line writing direction and to be displayed in a predetermined display screen that allows the plurality of lines and the plurality of characters included in the document to be displayed at the same time, the document display method comprising:
 consecutively connecting an end of a line in text including a plurality of lines and a beginning of a line in the text including the plurality of lines in the predetermined display screen, and performing an automatic scroll operation on the text including the plurality of lines endlessly; and   causing the end of a line in the text including the plurality of lines and the beginning of a line in the text including the plurality of lines to be displayed so as to be consecutively connected by shifting upward and downward by one line at a time.   
     
     
         2 . The document display method according to  claim 1 , wherein
 characters in a center of the display screen are displayed so as to be accentuated.   
     
     
         3 . The document display method according to  claim 2 , wherein
 the characters in the center of the display screen are displayed brightly in comparison with characters in a peripheral area.   
     
     
         4 . The document display method according to  claim 2 , wherein
 the characters in the center of the display screen are displayed so as to be magnified in comparison with characters in the peripheral area.   
     
     
         5 . The document display method according to  claim 1 , wherein
 when a blank area that does not include characters up to the end of a line due to a line break comes to the center of the display screen, a speed of the automatic scroll operation is raised, or the blank area is skipped and then the display screen is moved so that a character at a beginning of a line comes to the center of the display screen.   
     
     
         6 . The document display method according to  claim 1 , wherein
 the text on which the automatic scroll operation is performed is text clipped from an original document.   
     
     
         7 . The document display method according to  claim 6 , wherein
 the original document is data including only text data, data including only image data, or data including a mixture of image data and text data.   
     
     
         8 . The document display method according to  claim 1 , wherein
 a boundary between the end of a line in the text including a plurality of lines and the beginning of a line in the text including a plurality of lines, and a boundary between pages are displayed so as to allow the boundaries to be visually identified.   
     
     
         9 . A document display device comprising:
 an information input device which obtains an original document including one or more pages;   a display device which includes a predetermined display screen that allows a plurality of lines and a plurality of characters included in a document to be displayed at the same time, the plurality of lines and the plurality of characters being clipped from the original document; and   a display control device which causes a part of the original document to be displayed in the display screen by performing an automatic scroll operation on text including the plurality of lines in a line writing direction in the predetermined display screen, wherein   the display control device consecutively connects an end of a line in the text including a plurality of lines and a beginning of a line in the text including the plurality of lines in the predetermined display screen, and performs the automatic scroll operation on the text including the plurality of lines endlessly while the end of a line in the text including the plurality of lines and the beginning of a line in the text including the plurality of lines are displayed so as to be consecutively connected by shifting upward and downward by one line at a time.   
     
     
         10 . The document display device according to  claim 9 , wherein
 the display control device displays so as to accentuate characters in a center of the display screen.   
     
     
         11 . The document display device according to  claim 9 , wherein
 the display control device displays the characters in the center of the display screen brightly in comparison with characters in a peripheral area.   
     
     
         12 . The document display device according to  claim 9 , wherein
 the display control device displays so as to magnify the characters in the center of the display screen in comparison with characters in the peripheral area.   
     
     
         13 . The document display device according to  claim 9 , wherein
 when a blank area that does not include characters up to the end of a line due to a line break comes to the center of the display screen, the display control device raises a speed of the automatic scroll operation, or the display control device skips the blank area and then moves the display screen so that a character at a beginning of a line comes to the center of the display screen.   
     
     
         14 . The document display device according to  claim 9 , wherein
 the original document is data including only text data, data including only image data, or data including a mixture of image data and text data.   
     
     
         15 . The document display device according to  claim 9 , wherein
 the display control device displays so as to allow a boundary between the end of a line in the text including a plurality of lines and the beginning of a line in the text including a plurality of lines, and a boundary between pages to be visually identified.   
     
     
         16 . A programmable storage medium tangibly embodying a program of machine-readable instructions executable by a digital processing apparatus to perform a document display method, said method comprising:
 an information input step to obtain an original document including one or more pages; and   a display control step to cause a document including a plurality of lines and a plurality of characters clipped from the original document to be displayed in a display device including a predetermined display screen that allows a plurality of lines and a plurality of characters included in the document to be displayed at the same time, the display control step causing a part of the original document to be displayed in the display screen by performing an automatic scroll operation on text including a plurality of lines in a line writing direction in the predetermined display screen, wherein   the display control step consecutively connects an end of a line in the text including a plurality of lines and a beginning of a line in the text including the plurality of lines in the predetermined display screen, and performs the automatic scroll operation on the text including the plurality of lines endlessly while the end of a line in the text including the plurality of lines and the beginning of a line in the text including the plurality of lines are displayed so as to be consecutively connected by shifting upward and downward by one line at a time.